Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research Book

Preface     ix
Introduction     1
Pilot Testing     3
The Significance of Data Collection Measures     4
Elicitation Pitfalls     7
Replication and Data Reporting     11
Relationships between Treatments and Data Collection     12
Conclusion     13
Psycholinguistics-Based Research     15
Naturalistic Data     16
Prompted Production     20
Prompted Responses     22
Reaction Time     22
Sentence Interpretation     24
Elicited Imitation     27
Word Association     28
Priming     30
Lexical Decision     32
Cross-Modal (Lexical) Priming     33
Eye Movement     35
Moving Window     37
Self-Paced Listening and Reading Tasks     39
Gating Paradigm     41
Stroop Test     42
Conclusion     43
Cognitive Processes, Capacities, and Strategies-Based Research     45
Naturalistic Data     46
Observations     46
Diaries     47
Prompted Production     50
The Strategy Inventory forLanguage Learning (SILL)     51
Stimulated Recall     53
Think-Aloud Protocols     55
Immediate Recalls     60
Prompted Responses     63
Aptitude Tests     63
Working Memory Tests     67
Conclusion     70
Linguistics-Based Research     71
Naturalistic Data     73
Prompted Production     75
Elicited Imitation     76
Picture Description     78
Structured Elicitation     79
Story Telling     81
Sentence Combining     82
Prompted Responses     84
Acceptability Judgments     85
Materials     87
Procedures     94
Magnitude Estimation     99
Truth-Value Judgments and Other Interpretation Tasks     101
Sentence Matching     104
Conclusion     107
Interaction-Based Research     108
Naturalistic Data     109
Prompted Production     111
Picture-Description Tasks     111
Spot-the-Difference Tasks     112
Story-Completion Tasks     116
Map Tasks      118
Consensus Tasks     119
Consciousness-Raising Tasks     122
Prompted Responses     123
Introspective Data     124
Conclusion     127
Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics-Based Research     129
Naturalistic Data     129
Oral Data     130
Diary Studies     132
Prompted Production     134
Narratives     134
Interviews     136
Silent Films     136
Film Strips with Minimal Sound     138
Role-Plays     138
Prompted Responses     139
Discourse Completion Test (DCT)     139
Video Playback for Interpretation     143
Matched Guise     145
Conclusion     147
Survey-Based Research     148
Naturalistic Data     149
Prompted Production (Open-ended Items)     151
Prompted Responses (Closed-ended Items)     152
Topics in Questionnaire Studies     154
Advantages and Caveats     160
Advantages     160
Caveats     162
Conclusion     163
Classroom-Based Research     164
Naturalistic Classroom Research     164
Observations     165
Observation Schemes     165
Mechanical Means of Making Observations     167
Observation Etiquette     169
Experimental Classroom Research     172
Action Research     175
Conclusion     177
References     179
Glossary     195
Author Index     203
Subject Index     207